Re-iteration of the instructions on verifications of claims of candidates belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs for the purpose of appointment to posts/services -…

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Re-iteration of the instructions on verifications of claims of candidates belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs for the purpose of appointment to posts/services - State Level Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) Reports/findings establishing issue of fake/false Caste certificate and action thereon-reg an employee on the basis of false/fake caste certificate (ST/ST/OBC as the case may

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RBE No.l 4/2025
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS
(RAILWAY BOARD)

No.2025-E(SCT)I/25/1 New Delhi, dated-09.05.2025

The General Managers(P):
All Indian Zonal Railways
& Production Units.

The Director General/RDSO/ Lucknow

Sub: Re-iteration of the instructions on verifications of claims of candidates
belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs for the purpose of appointment to
posts/services - State Level Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) Reports/findings
establishing issue of fake/false Caste certificate and action thereon-reg.

Ref.: (i) DOP&T’s O.M. Nos. 41034/1/2022-Estt.(Res.-I) dated 29.3.2023 and No.
41034/1
(ii) /2022-Estt.(Res.-I) dated 29.03.2023 circulated vide Board’s letter No.
2012-E(SCT)I25/2 dated 11.4.2023;
(iii) DOP&T’s O.M. No, 36012/6/88/Estt.(SCT) dated 24.4.1990 circulated
vide Board’s letter No. 90-E(SCT)I/31/1 dated 25/31.5.1990 and reiterated
vide No.2004-E(SCT}I/99/2 dated 7.7.2005;
(iv) DOP&T vide OM. No. 36033/9/95-Estt.(SCT) dated 10.5.1995 circulated
vide Board’s letter No. 90-E(SCT)I/71/1 dated 27.6.1995;
(v) DOP&T O.M. No.360113/2005-Estt.(Res.) dated 9.9.2005.

The nodal Ministry i.e. Ministry of Personal, Public grievances and Pensions
(DOP&T) through various O.Ms have issued/re-iterated instructions/ guidelines
regarding streamlining the process of verification of caste certificate of the employees
and timely verifications of claims of candidates belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs based
on the prima-facie certificate produced by the them for the purpose of appointment to
posts/services, The same have also been re-iterated by Board’s office from time to
time and latest vide letter No. 2012-E(SCT\I25/2 dated 11.4.2023 circulating
therewith a copy of DOP&T’s O.M. Nos. 41034/ 1/2022-Estt.(Res.-]) dated 29.3.2023
and No. 41034/I(ii)/2022-Estt.(Res.-I) dated 29,03.2023 each.

2. Hon’ble Supreme Court, vide its judgment dated .02.09.1994, in the matter of
‘Kumari Madhuri Patil V/s Addl. Commissioner (1995 AIR 94, 1994 SCC (6) 241) has
held that the admission wrongly gained or appointment wrongly obtained on the basis
of false social status certificate necessarily has the effect of depriving the genuine
Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes or OBC candidates, as enjoined in the
Constitution, of the benefits conferred on them by the Constitution. In pursuance of
the above order of the Apex Court, DOP&T vide above referred O.Ms issued detailed
guidelines for timely verifications of Caste certificate.

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3. As per DOP&T’s above OMs dated-29.03.2023, the process for verification of the
caste certificate of the employee may be initiated immediately and a communication
issued to the concerned State/UT Authorities within a week of joining of government
service by the employee. The State/UT Authorities have also been requested by
DOP&T from time to time to verify the caste/community certificate of the
candidates/employees and report the same to the appointing authority within one
month of request from such appointing authority. If no report is received from the
concerned State/UT Authorities within a period of one month, the matter may be
taken up at the highest level and it may be ensured that the process of verification of
the Caste/Tribe/Community certificate of the employee is completed within a period of
six months of her/his joining the service.

4, Despite the existing guidelines and its reiteration from time to time by DOP&T
and consequently by Board’s office, it has come to the notice that cases of false/fake
caste certificates gets detected on the verge of the retirement of the employees, and
even in certain cases after the superannuation of the employee. The same has been
viewed very seriously by the Railway Board.

5. Instruction already exist which provides that the services of the candidates
claiming to be belonging to SCs/STs would be terminated, if their claims are found to
be false on subsequent verification through District Magistrate. DOP&T’s O.M. No,
36012/6/88/Estt.(SCT) dated 24.4,1990 (Circulated vi

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